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W. H. H. CLAGUE.

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W. H. H. GLAGUE.

I PAP-ER FILE. No. 312,086. Patented Feb. 10, 1885.

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llnrrnn Srarns WILLIAM H. H. OLAGUE, OF ROCHESTER, NE\V YORK.

PAPER-FILE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,086, dated February10, 1885.

Application filed May 24, 1881.

(X0 model.)

Io ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. II. CLAGUE, of Rochester, in the countyof More roe and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Paper- Files or Temporary Binders; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to paper-files of the class having one or morestandards or wires affixed to a base, upon which standards or wires theperforated papers are strung.

The object of the invention is to hold the pa pers, whether many or few,compactly together on the file; and to this end it'oonsists in a deviceor compressor constructed and adapted to engage with the standard orstandards upon which the papers are strung, so that when said compressoris pressed down upon the papers and so engaged, as described, the paperswill be confined between the corn pressor and the base.

The invention also consists in certain de tails of construction,hereinafter pointed out and indicated in the claims.

In the drawings the invention is illustrated in its application to aparticular well-known form of file patented to James S. Shannon, havinga base-board and two upright puncturing or retaining wires, and twoother wires that are bent to form with said retainingwires two parallelarches which may be opened and closed to receive and retain the papers,and upon which said papers may be transferred from the punoturing-wiresor stationary parts of the arches to the vertical parts of the bentwires of said arches, to facilitate the inspection, insertion, orremoval of an intermediate paper of the mass upon the file.

Figure l is a plan view of the file with my improvement applied thereto,and showing the compressor loose or disengaged from the standards orwires. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the compressor engaged with thefile-wires. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section in the lineman of Fig.2. Fig. l is a plan showing a modified construction of the slide bywhich the compressor is engaged with the wires of the file.

Fig. 5 is another modification of a fastening-slide. Fig. 6 is aperspective view of still another form of the device by which thecompressor may be secured to the standard-wires. Fig. 7 is a verticaltransverse section of the clamp or fastening device of Fig. 6.

A represents a board, to which the paper- -holding devices are in thisinstance applied.

13 is the metal base of the particular form of file above referred to.

G O are two stationary puncturing or retaining wires which pass throughthe papers, and thereby retain them on the file.

O G are two bent and rotatable or otherwise movable wires, which, withthe wires 0 0, form arches to retain the papers transferably, as aboveset forth.

D is the body of the compressor, apertured at (Z to fitover the wire orwires or other form of standard or standards passing through the papersP. In the present instance said co1npressor D is a strip of sheet metalfolded over the edge of a stiff sheet, D, which nearly or quite coversthe papers on the file-board A,

E is a metal slide movably secured to the compressor D in position tobind upon the wires 0 when forced in one direction, but to stand free ofcontact with said wires when at the opposite limit of its movement. Inthe present instance the slide is thus movably held by means of a fixedheaded pin, (1, which passes freely through a slot, 0, located in theslide, and is fastened in the compressor D, as best shown in Fig. 3.

In Figs. 1 to 4., inclusive, this slot 6 is relatively oblique orinclined to the edge or edges of the slide which approximates or bearsagainst the wires 0. In Figs. 1 and 2 said bearing-edge is straight andthe slot is inclined, while in Fig. 4 the slot is direct and thebearing-edge of the slide is inclined opposite each of the wires 0. Anappropriate longitudinal movement of the slide E will therefore, ineither case, clamp the upright wires 0 between the walls of the holes din the compressor D and the adjacent edge of the slide.

To facilitate the movement of the slide E, one of its ends is upturnedat c.

In the operation of the compressing device described the more or lessrigid compressor D is borne forcibly downward upon the papers P, andwhile thus depressed the slide thereon is slid into clamping engagementwith the wires 0, by binding which it serves to hold the compressordown,or in the depressed position into which it was pressed. In the caseof two wires or standards 0 the employment of a single guide, as d, forthe slide, and its location at a point between the wires 0, as shown inFigs. 1, 2, and 4, insure effective contact of said slide with bothwires and hold the compressor level or equally depressed at both ends,if originally borne down to such a position. Notches e in the slide Emaybe placed in position to stand opposite the wires 0 when the slide isin its released position. These pronounced depressions or notches affordgreater freedom of vertical movement of the compressor when released,and render necessary a less longitudinal movement of the slide totransfer the latter from a clamping to a perfectly released position.The compressor, when applied to the arched form of slide herein shown,is obviously capable of being slid back and forth over the arch-wires,like any perforated sheet, and need not, therefore, be moved from thearches when the latter are opened to receive additional papers, or forany other purpose. The slide shown in Fig. 5,having a wedge-shaped ortapering slot embracing the standard-wire G, operates in an obviousmanner to bear upon both sides of said standard, the compressor-plate Dnot being concerned in the binding action. The clamp or fastening shownin Figs. 6 and 7 operates,on the other hand, to draw the walls of theeompressorD against said wires essentially as in the case oftheslidingclamp shown in Figs. 1 to 4, but by a different direction of movement.Said clamp of Figs. 6 and 7 consists of a 1'0- tating wire or rod, F,retained in place upon the compressor by suitable devices, (as staples,)f1. At points opposite the standardwires 0 said rod F is provided withprojections f, which, upon being depressed into a horizontal positionagainst the standards, as indicated in Fig. 7, push the compressorbackward and clamp said wires between said propressor is held is notessential, inasmuch as this device may manifestly be variouslyconstruoted, the essential feature of said invention being theengagement of the fastening with the paper-holding standard orstandards. It is also manifest that the details of construction can bevaried withoutdeparture from my invention as, for example, it isimmaterial what may be the number or form of the standards orpaper-retaining wires.

I claim. as my invention- 1. The combination,with the base and standardof a paper-file, of a compressor and a fastening, substantially asdescribed, which engages the standard, for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the base and standard of a paper-file, ofanapertured compressor fitted to said standard, and a movable slideconstructed to clamp or release the standard, substantially asdescribed.

3. The combination, with a file-base and two paper-holding wires orstandards thereon, of an apertured compressor fitted to said wires, anda wedging'slide arranged to bear upon both said wires, and removablyattached to the compressor at a point between its points of bearing onthe wires, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the base and two wires or standards, of awedging centrallyguided slide provided with notches opposite the wireswhen said slide is in its retracted position, substantially asdescribed.

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. H. GLAGUE. Witnesses:

JOHN W. PITT, L. B. lVIAROY.

